If you like ASCII art, maybe you know about JP Lebreton’s EDSCII tool, a pretty nifty ASCII art program with colours and character palettes from a variety of 8 bit machines, among other things.

Of course I had to go and add the Amstrad CPC palette and character set, you can grab them here. Unzip in your EDSCII folder, you can load them in the program like any other palette, by using the built-in commandline (TAB key) and typing “char cpc” for the cpc charset, and “pal cpc” for the cpc palette.